Civilization and violence are antithetical concepts.

The question is not whether we will be extremists, but what kind of extremists we will be... The nation and the world are in dire need of creative extremists.

Jesus Christ was an extremist for love, truth and goodness.

Great people aren't those who are happy at times of convienience and content, but of how they are in times of catastrophy and controversy.

Nonviolence is the most potent technique for oppressed people. Unearned suffering is redemptive.

Capital punishment is against the best judgment of modern criminology and, above all, against the highest expression of love in the nature of God.

We must build dikes of courage to hold back the flood of fear.